Re: phonology of borrowed words

En réponse à Roberto Suarez Soto <ask4it@...>:

>
>         "Ensaladilla rusa" ("little russian salad", so to speak) is a
> dish made with mahonaisse (sp?),
Mayonnaise! (French word, by the way :))) , and pronounced natively as
[majo'nEz])

 boilt vegetables and potatoes, and
> maybe some other things. You serve it cold, and I personally love it
> %-)
Me too :)) .

> I guess the serving it cold is what makes it "russian" :-)
>
I thought it was called "Russian" because it was *really* Russian (we have it
too: salade russe). And then I discovered what the Dutch call "salade" (which
has nothing to do with the green stuff we in France call "salade". In Dutch
that stuff is called "sla" :)) ), and now I'm wondering if the Russian salade
was not created in the Netherlands :))) (they have there hundreds of different
kinds of "salade" which are made along the same principles as the Russian
salade).

Christophe.

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